The teleological argument has received a resurgence in recent years. This is thanks to cosmological data which appears offer new evidence indicate that the existence of life result contrivance face staggering improbability. Richard Swinburne argues cosmic fine-tuning gives us good believe creator God classical theism, who reasons create human agents. I assess Swinburne’s use “principle simplici...

Abstract Agnostics as well theists should answer evidential arguments from evil, at least when confronted with them. In this paper, I such an argument by appealing to sceptical agnosticism. A agnostic is not only undecided about the existence of a perfectly good and omnipotent God, but also believes that we cannot make any judgement whether or seemingly gratuitous evil probably gratuitous. argu...

Open theism is known for its greater logical precision, notion of an all­-perfect personal and temporal God, resulting ‘risky’ theodicy. In discussions on the argument from evil, world­-order value free moral agency have become crucial. One necessary elements life existence particular physical evils which there cannot be a good to justify them. Particularly problematic are horren...

The first premise of J. L. Schellenberg’s Hiddenness Argument equates God’s love with a positive relationship to human beings. To illustrate this relationship, the model parental is used, based on standards modern American liberal world, not biblical standard. As result, we attribute God narrowly understood horizontal towards people, which completely alien understanding developed in Christian t...

Abstract Traditional theism says that the goodness of everything comes from God. Moreover, something intrinsically valuable can only come what has it. Many conclude these two claims no creatures have intrinsic value if traditional is true. I argue exemplarist theory divine ideas gives theist a way out. According to exemplarism, God creates according are about himself, and so resembles Since who...

It is often assumed that the first stage of many classical arguments for theism depends upon some version Principal Sufficient Reason (PSR) being true. Unfortunately theists, PSR a controversial thesis has come under rather severe criticism in contemporary literature. In this article, I grant sake argument every false. Thus, concede with critics PSR, it possible there is, at least, one fact ont...

While much has been written about the probabilities referenced in Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, insufficient attention paid to question of how these are be interpreted. In this paper, I demonstrate that objective interpretations entail denial traditional theism, making them unsuitable for purpose here. With respect epistemic interpretations, note standard Bayesianism is ...